May day protests highlight Europe?s pain from FT.com – World, Europe Tens of thousands of workers take to the streets for annual marches, demonstrating against government spending cuts and rising unemployment How real is Hollande’s veto threat? by Open Europe blog team As has been widely reported, Francois Hollande – the socialist contender for the … Read more
Sarkozy rules out far right deal from BBC News | Europe | World Edition Nicolas Sarkozy rules out a re-election deal with the far right as Socialist Francois Hollande sets out plans to revise the EU fiscal compact. Hollande in the driving seat from Blogactiv by nucleus MAIN FOCUS: Le Pen’s election victory a … Read more
Can pirates shake up European politics? Pirate Parties On Course for Historic Election Wins from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Founded in September 2006, the German Pirate Party has already booked several successes in its relatively short existence. German Pirate party overtakes Greens in new poll from Hurriyet Daily News Germany’s upstart Pirate Party has overtaken … Read more
Booklet: Why You Should Care About ACTA 14 November, 2011 » Campaigns | Intellectual Property Enforcement The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral agreement which proposes international standards for enforcement of intellectual property rights. The Agreement, negotiated by a handful of countries1 in coordination with certain parts of industry, is controversial in both process … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: Standard & Poor’s threatens bailout fund | 07/12/2011 from euro|topics The US rating agency Standard & Poor’s threatened on Tuesday to downgrade the credit rating of the EFSF bailout fund. Fifteen euro countries are now also having to worry that they may lose their top credit standings. With its move Standard & Poor’s … Read more
EU court rules policing the Internet is illegal (News) from EurActiv.com The European Court of Justice issued yesterday (24 November) a historic ruling establishing that member states cannot impose the filtering of the Internet for the purpose of preventing illegal downloads of copyrighted files. EU policy blogs: There are some indeed! (updated) from Ideas on … Read more
Europride and Gaga in Rome from Boing Boing by Jasmina Te?anovic (Lady Gaga performs during a gay pride concert in downtown Rome. Stefano Rellandini / Reuters) The gay icon Lady Gaga was there wearing her green wig, together with up to one million people marching chanting singing in a carnival gay pride march. Rome is … Read more
WLCentral will be providing news coverage from Spain on the ongoing #spanishrevolution trough this liveblog. Contact us at @wikileaks_world or wikileaksworld@wikileaksworld.org to help us with footage, information and opinion.15MayRevolution.com provides information in English about the 15M movement. An updated agenda of related protests around the world can be found here. Serbia: Arrest of Ratko Mladic … Read more
EU has reached its ‘lowest point in history’ from EurActiv.com Despite having achieved peace and prosperity, the European project has reached its “lowest point in history,” according to policymakers gathered in Florence to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Schuman Declaration. Why there is no serious blogging scene in Brussels from Ideas on … Read more
Internet Giants Take France to Court Over Personal Data Policy by Stan Schroeder Moderate secularism: a European conception, Tariq Modood from open Democracy News Analysis – by Tariq Modood The question of religion?s place in modern secular societies is intellectually contested and politically divisive. Here, the scholar Tariq Modood argues that European experience and institutional … Read more
The EU won the Olympics, the World Cup…and now an Oscar by Open Europe blog team The EU won the 2006 and 2010 World Cups in football (at least according to Romani Prodi and Jean-Claude Trichet, so it has to be true). Interview with Olivier Roy on ‘Islam in Europe’ by Reflection Cafe New Perspectives … Read more
Hungarian Media Law Translated from Stephen Spillane by Stephen The National Media and Infocommunications Authority Hungary (Nmhh) have published the Act on Media Services and Mass Media on their website in PDF format. Hungarian media law and EU Council presidency: Evolving European opinion by Grahnlaw A measure of European public opinion is already reflected on … Read more
Global Publics Embrace Social Networking Computer and Cell Phone Usage Up Around the World Another report: Generations 2010 by Kathryn Zickuhr Generation Y Likes Facebook More Than Television from All Facebook by Jackie Cohen If you have deja vu seeing statistics like these, join the club: Some 81 percent of affluent Generation Y adults logs … Read more
The most Influential left-of-centre European Blogs: And the winner is? from Social Europe Journal by SEJ First of all thanks to everyone who voted in our ballot to establish for the first time what the most influential left-of-centre European blogs are. We wanted to avoid a SEJ bias as far as possible and therefore notified … Read more
ohm, well, i did not know exactly I was of left-of-center blogger although while I was in Houston, I remember playing with left-liberal label. and i don’t know exactly how to idenfity my politics (sometimes I label myself as radical democrat)… here is the contest info: What are the most influential left-of-centre European Blogs? Vote … Read more